Merlin-spellbook

Added
- function `make-barrier-cost` to create optimization cost functions

Added
- pylint to dev requirements for format checking

Changed
- Conduit tests are skipped when conduit python package is not available. (test_conduit.py is also skipped for format checking)
- Rename l variable in setup.py to line.
- Removed unused import libraries.
- Fixed bare "except" statements.
- Created a get_samples function for sample generation in MakeSamples.run to simplify run function.
- Update workflow to always run syntax checkers even if previous syntax heckers fail.
- Reformat code with isort, black and pylint to fit coding standards

Added
- Delimiter option in serialization command.

Changed
- In serialize command, grab the first entry as the key and everything else as the value.

Fixed
- version number in docs and setup.py to match 0.5.3

Fixed
- auto-deploy by adding a MANIFEST.in and changing to python -m build for release

Added
- prototype github actions for testing and auto-deploy

Fixed
- `conduit-collect` incompatibility with recent versions of click
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